A legendary artist with killer runs on Spider-Man, Punisher
and X-Men will reportedly be drawing the Man of Steel this year.

According to comic-book rumor site Bleeding
Cool, DC Comics' flagship superhero will be getting a new
interpretation from John Romita, Jr., the second-generation creator whose
family name is synonymous with rival publisher Marvel. Romita is supposedly joining DC Comics chief
creative officer/star writer Geoff Johns, who appears to have cleared the decks
to start in on a new run on Superman.

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Romita's only drawn Superman one time before, on the cover
of a collection of old-school DC/Marvel crossovers. The drawing above hews
closely to the ceremonial Krytonian armor style that Kal-El's been sporting
ever since the New 52 relaunch, with the plating looking more raised and
three-dimensional. A formal announcement of the new creative pairing is expected later today on DC's YouTube channel.

Update: The episode of DC All Access debuting the new team is up now

Johns' output for the New 52 has been a mixed bag, for me,
mostly standard fare in the trauma-driven, dour-superdude paradigm that he
helped cement in the late 1990s. I've
liked his writing on Superman in the past, though, particularly in his
run on Action Comics with Gary Frank and Andy Kubert on art. Here's hoping that
the Johns/Romita run is a return to the brightly-inflected Superman seen in
that interpretation.